How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
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State Sponsored Vigilantism: A Conversation with Bob Libal about Texas Legislation to Create 'Border Protection Units'
Armed civilians who believe that undocumented migrants are 'invaders' could be enforcing the Texas immigration proposal, says Libal, a consultant for Human Rights Watch.
Ducey’s Debacle: The Wall of Shipping Containers Is Gone, but Questions Remain
Former protestors celebrate the re-opening of the stretch of border, and evaluate the environmental damage.
What does Oaxaca, Mexico, have to do with the U.S. Border? A Q&A with Miguel Ángel Vásquez de la Rosa
The connection between migration, poverty, violence, and corporate dispossession in Oaxaca. And the active resistance to them.
Residents Fight to Save the Binational Friendship Park: A Q&A with Pedro Rios
As 30-foot walls go up, U.S. residents lose another important symbol of binational solidarity between the two countries.
The Importance of Cross Border Journalism: A Podcast with Kendal Blust and Murphy Woodhouse
With media coverage shrinking, this two-person news bureau based in Hermosillo, Sonora, fills a vital role informing U.S. audiences about Mexico.
The Colonial Border in the Maasai Mara: A Podcast Interview with Meitamei Olol Dapash
The Maasai leader gives an on-the-ground look at the mass exodus of people from Tanzania after a violent land grab and talks about what the border really means for indigenous people in Africa.
Warrantless Searches, Stops With No Probable Cause Are Un-American: A Conversation With Sheriff David Hathaway
The second part of our in-depth conversation with the Arizona border sheriff
Reporter’s Notebook: The Crisis Nobody Knows About on the Kenya-Tanzania Border
Reportage from where a private company and state-led border building converge to violently evict people from their ancestral land.
How the U.S. Border Arrived in Kenya
A look at U.S. border externalization, the death it has caused, and the art of negotiating and resisting borders in Maasailand.
Inside Mexico’s Largest Detention Center: A Q&A with Belén Fernández
“There may not be human rights in Siglo XXI,” the name of the Tapachula immigration detention center where the author and journalist was imprisoned, “but there’s lots of humanity.”
Republicans’ Upcoming Border Hearings Will Platform White Supremacist Ideology: A Q&A with Zachary Mueller
If Republicans aren't held to account for extremist rhetoric, we’re going to see more acts of political violence, warns Mueller
Ducey’s Shipping Container Wall Comes Down, but the Damage Is Done
The U.S. Forest Service cancels permits given to group monitoring the environmental damage in the Coronado National Forest.